Hi Buddy. I spoke to you a couple of years ago and you had mentioned SAE might be reprinting Data Power. Any word on that?
Great blog by the way. I spent a year doing fuel for timed races so I...
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Type: Posts; User: Alan
Hi Buddy. I spoke to you a couple of years ago and you had mentioned SAE might be reprinting Data Power. Any word on that?
Great blog by the way. I spent a year doing fuel for timed races so I...
For most of these "Dream Jobs" employers are looking for a particular skill set or background. What they are looking for is going to vary from team to team and person to person. You'll never know...
Knowing what I know now, I would have focused more on keeping the old cars running with proper data acquisition. Then driving the cars and really exploring the bounds of the parameters that can be...
I don't know if they've ever manufactured an F1 gearbox (it wouldn't surprise me) but they do manufacture some internal components for F1.
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I've heard of some IRL teams that used to use F1 gears so if you can get your hands on an IRL gear ratio list that would give you an idea. But without knowing what the bevel and/or drop ratios are...
I'm not doing it for the salary, at least not in the short term. For the most part, degrees don't matter much in the racing industry (at least from what I've seen in American Open Wheel Racing). ...
I'm definitely trying to do it for free or close to it. I've spent the last 5 years depriving myself for the sake of paying off loans and I don't want to go through that again.
There was another...
I'm looking at going back to school to get a Masters or a PhD in Automotive Engineering or Mechanical Engineering with an Automotive thesis. The schools I have in mind so far are UM Ann Arbor,...
I'm looking at going back to school to get a Masters or a PhD in Automotive Engineering or Mechanical Engineering with an Automotive thesis. The schools I have in mind so far are UM Ann Arbor,...
This link may have the info you're looking for.
http://coastfab.com/tech%20info.html
Probably the most fundamental thing to consider will be the engine torque while driving and coasting. Gear ratios and final drive ratio will need to be factored in. Beyond that the approach you...
Unfortunately it's not as simple as turning the car 90 deg and applying the same equations. This is not an easy one to answer but page 617 in RCVD is a good start.
Its analogous in that total...
I don't have the book in front of me at the moment but I think I know which equations you are referring to. If you take the equation for front lateral load transfer and rear lateral load transfer,...
People keep mentioning Solidworks and Excel together without explicitly mentioning the API (although I think this is what people are alluding to). By using the API you can "control" Solidworks...
1. Wheel rates and roll rates are directly related by the equation roll rate = 1/2 * wheel rate * track width^2. Whether or not the resulting number would be considered stiff in roll depends on...
Somebody already mentioned this in another thread but a lot of high downforce cars run some sort of ride control spring that only works in compression. It could be a coil spring that only engages...
Would a Mathworks training class not fit the bill?
Have you tried plugging in numbers to see what happens when you change values of the variables that effect lateral load transfer?
If I were to go back and work on FSAE again, the brakes and the diff are two areas I would focus on a lot more than I did previously. I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not with the "brakes...
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Are you referring to the Milliken Moment Method?
Hopefully it can get back to the way it was in the mid 90's. That's when I became interested in race cars and led me to join a Formula SAE team.
Hopefully it can get back to the way it was in the mid 90's. That's when I became interested in race cars and led me to join a Formula SAE team.
I think anybody involved with a FSAE program can say they have bitten off more than they can chew. I started FSAE 8 years ago and graduated 4 years ago. I'm still learning/re-learning some really...